Photographer's Note

In Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazon, it was created by the Federal Government an area of free trade and of fiscal incentives, with a considerable reduction of taxes for industries. Great part of the you manufacture of motorcycles, appliances, and electronic apparels, they settled down in this area, transforming it in important Brazilian industrial pole, creating an interesting and extensive route of transport of approximately 6.000 km, half of this fact navigating the river Amazon among Belém and Manaus, and the other part for road between Belém and São Paulo, creating an intense daily movement of trucks and barges that transport ties 110 trucks (picture).